Kosami Oshiro

Kosami Oshiro (12 June 1880-29 May 1945) was a Lieutenant-General of the Imperial Japanese Army. A veteran of World War I, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and World War II, he was killed in the Battle of Okinawa.

Biography
Kosami Oshiro was born in Nagata Prefecture in Japan on 12 June 1880, and he became a soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War I after graduating from a military academy in Tokyo. Oshiro served as a military attache to the United States and assisted them in coordinating attacks against the German Empire, but he later left this job when the US broke off relations with Japan following their 1937 invasion of China, which Oshiro helped to plan. In 1945 Oshiro, stationed on the island of Okinawa, was killed in the last-ditch defense of Shuri Castle from the Americans.